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> Richard Jacobs, a security analyst whom Uber fired in April and now consults for the company, testified Tuesday that up to dozens of employees were trained to
by paxy 9y ago
> Richard Jacobs, a security analyst whom Uber fired in April and now consults for the company, testified Tuesday that up to dozens of employees were trained to used ephemeral messaging systems, including Wickr, to communicate so that their conversations would be clandestine and could not surface in any “anticipated litigation.”
Literally from the article.
- weddpros 9y agoMaybe he provided proof of that... maybe it was just his understanding? Legal departments know it's impossible to be 100.00% legal (who has never trespassed a single law?), and they're tasked with avoiding any legal risk. To them, it's probably just risk mitigation to ask employees to avoid leaving unnecessary evidence.
- Spooky23 9y agoThere’s a line between managing risk and abetting. Uber likes to push or cross boundaries in many other areas, so it stands to reason that perhaps they did that here.
- weddpros 9y agoExcept if they can be found guilty because of suppositions. I guess it's just a case where the law makes no sense: you can't prove you've innocently suggested to use a secure communication tool for the right reasons, so there will always be a doubt about your sincerity.
- Spooky23 9y agoIt’s more like when you claim that you don’t remember anything, but the investigators find out that the email trail (which jogged your memory) mysteriously stops at a time when you are suspected to have engaged in illegal activity. Then the investigators find that email stopped when you decided to use a “secure” messenger tool that automatically self-destructs messages. What inference would any rational human draw?